that was two years ago, but in my defense, you know, people still thought, you know, various congressmen who didn't even run were going to be the candidates. it was two c pacs away from the presidential election. and because it's so hard to beat an incumbent president, i mean, i still love chris cristie. i hope he does run for president some day. he was so brave in the way he took on the public sector unions the way no republican had ever done it before, and everybody loved it, um and he was just so articulate and bright, and he had become the star. i thought we would probably lose this election because you can't take out an incumbent, especially one who is personally likable as obama is, um, and then for one thing, chris cristie made it very clear he wasn't running, um, but i supported romney back in 2008. and i changed my mind about being able to beat obama. though i don't think anyone could have done it, and mitt romney is not only the best candidate to run against obama because in the past, he has basically forced his opponents to default. he did when he ran for the illinois legislat